ROCK STREAM, N.Y. — The hamlet of Rock Stream in Yates County is recovering after a tornado ripped through the neighborhood.
News10NBC spoke with a man who witnessed the EF-1 tornado tear through his yard late Thursday morning.
“I went into my wife’s bedroom, and I told you we’re about ready to get hit, I guess. So get buckled down. And before I could even get out of there to start closing windows up, the back door blew open, and it was on,” Perry said.
Perry says that’s what he went through when his home of 25 years was hit by the tornado around 11 a.m. on Thursday. The tornado started just north of his property, traveled through his side yard, and knocked over a dozen trees before making its way down toward the lake.
“Oh it’s brutal. I mean, because all I could do at the time was I had my shoulder leaning up against the back door, just holding everything closed,” Perry said. “All I could do and hoping the back windows didn’t pull out because they were rattling at me. They say it sounds like a freight train. It does.”
According to the National Weather Service, the tornado reached wind speeds of 90 miles an hour. Perry said National Weather Service officials found some of his shingles about a quarter mile on the other side of the road on Route 14.
Today, the cleanup continues, but Perry says he couldn’t do it without the help of his neighbors. They came over with their tractors and forks and started chaining everything up, cutting things up and piling it up.
“We got a pretty good neighborhood here in Rock Stream,” Perry said.
Meteorologist Stacey Pengsen says another tornado from the same storm system was detected near the Cortland area.
Yates County homeowner describes EF-1 tornado ripping through Rock Stream property: ‘It sounds like a freight train’ WHEC.com.
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